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Distance: 72.0 km Ride time: 5:36:12 Average: 12.9 km/h Max speed: 26.3 km/h Total: 51312 km I was very excited about today’s ride which would take me through a very remote corner of Kenya and into Ethiopia! After packing my tent I cycled through the tiny village of Lowarengak, looking for a bit of breakfast. [ Read More ]

Distance: 92.6 km Ride time: 7:55:40 Average: 11.7 km/h Max speed: 27.4 km/h Total: 51240 km I was pretty excited as I left Kalokol in the early morning. The tiny village would be the last sign of civilization before heading into the border area between Kenya and Ethiopia. I had been doing my research, and [ Read More ]

Distance: 57.7 km Ride time: 3:47:49 Average: 15.2 km/h Max speed: 32.4 km/h Total: 51147 km Yesterday I had checked out of my fancy hotel in Nairobi and taken the small flight back to Lodwar. Today I was back in my right element – cycling into a remote area on a rough dirt road in [ Read More ]

Normally while riding my bike I feel pretty integrated in the culture I’m cycling through. In Africa I might not exactly look very local with my blue eyes in (half) fancy bike, but the thing is that I feel pretty local because I’m eating at the same restaurants and sleeping at the same cheap guest [ Read More ]

Distance: 86.7 km Ride time: 5:47:00 Average: 15.0 km/h Max speed: 31.0 km/h Total: 51089 km I left Lokichar early in the morning to try to beat the heat. After a bit of shopping for biscuits and water I was heading into the remote Turkana country once again. I wasn’t expecting to see much civilization [ Read More ]

Distance: 81.2 km Ride time: 5:48:19 Average: 14.0 km/h Max speed: 26.3 km/h Total: 51002 km No, I’m not in Africa anymore. In fact I’m sitting in a comfortable couch back home in Copenhagen, but it’s time to return to Africa and pick up the story where we left it in Kenya. So, without further [ Read More ]

I had planned to cycle further up towards the border of Ethiopia before catching a bus back to Nairobi to sort out my visa, but with the road turning into dirt and the villages getting smaller and smaller, I figured I’d better make the bus trip back to Nairobi now that I was still within [ Read More ]

Distance: 105.9 km Ride time: 6:50:14 Average: 15.5 km/h Max speed: 46.1 km/h Total: 50921 km Today would mark an important milestone on this African adventure. In my mind, the ride has always been divided in three parts: The first would be South Africa and Namibia, the 2nd part would be the ‘real’ Africa along [ Read More ]

Distance: 105.9 km Ride time: 6:50:14 Average: 15.5 km/h Max speed: 46.1 km/h Total: 50921 km Cycling on Sundays in Africa is interesting – while passing the small villages there is always plenty of religious activities taking place in the streets. No boring speaches around here… Otherwise I’m very much enjoying my time in Kenya. [ Read More ]

Distance: 86.6 km Ride time: 5:14:22 Average: 16.5 km/h Max speed: 40.0 km/h Total: 50815 km I had been staying in a cheap hotel in the border town of Busia between Uganda and Kenya. This morning’s first project was to enter Kenya – country number 48 in Cycling The Globe history. Even after all these [ Read More ]